Criminal Type
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| Sire: | Alydar | |
| Dam: | Klepto | |
| Damsire: | No Robbery | |
| Sex: | Stallion | |
| Foaled: | 1985 | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Colour: | Chestnut | |
| Breeder: | Calumet Farm | |
| Owner: | Calumet Farm & Jurgen K. Arnemann | |
| Trainer: | D. Wayne Lukas (from age 4) | |
| Record: | 24: 10-5-3 | |
| Earnings: | $2,351,817 | |
| Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards | ||
| Major Racing Wins | ||
| Hollywood Gold Cup (1990) Pimlico Special (1990) Metropolitan Handicap (1990) Whitney Handicap (1990) |
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| Racing Awards | ||
| U.S. Champion Older Male Horse (1990) United States Horse of the Year (1990) |
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Infobox last updated on: November 16, 2006. |
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Criminal Type (1985-2005) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. A descendant of Nearco, he was bred at the famed Calumet Farm in Lexington, Kentucky and owned in partnership with Jurgen K. Arnemann who sent him to race in France. There, racing on grass, Criminal Type was a winner at age two, but after a poor three-year-old season he was brought back to the United States and turned over to trainer D. Wayne Lukas.
In 1990, at age four, Criminal Type began to show promise on the U.S. dirt tracks, then at age five he won seven of eleven races entered and earned two Eclipse Awards including the most prestigious award of all, the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year. His 1990 Grade I wins included defeats of two future Hall of Famers, Easy Goer and 1989 Horse of the Year Sunday Silence and he set a new Pimlico Race Course record for 9½ furlongs in capturing the Pimlico Special.
At the end of the 1990 season, Criminal Type was retired to stand at stud at Calumet Farm where he sired two graded stakes race winners before he was sent in 1993 to a breeding farm in Japan. He died there at age twenty on March 9, 2005 from a ruptured stomach.
